After national budget passed, ANC looks set to resume NEC meetings
The party has postponed a series of NEC meetings, including a special sitting following the Democratic Alliance (DA)'s refusal to support the fiscal framework in Parliament back in April.
African National Congress emblem. Picture: AFP
JOHANNESBURG - Now that Parliament has finally passed the budget, the African National Congress (ANC) looks set to now hold a national executive committee (NEC) meeting.
The party has postponed a series of NEC meetings, including a special sitting following the Democratic Alliance (DA)'s refusal to support the fiscal framework in Parliament back in April.
The meeting kicks off on Friday and will wrap up on Monday.
It's expected to deliberate over issues including crime, energy, gender-based violence and local government performance.
After several months of putting the ANC's NEC meetings in abeyance, the party is seemingly ready for them to resume.
EWN understands that attempts for the NEC to meet were deliberately pushed back, in a bid to protect the budgetary process in Parliament.
Some in the NEC, along with the ANC caucus, have been vehemently opposed to a continued relationship with the DA.
Party insiders have said this was the reason why the structure, which is the ANC's highest decision-making body in between conferences, could not meet, as it had the powers to boot out the DA, thus destabilising a crucial hurdle in the Government of National Unity (GNU).